Sabbath, retired puppeteer, serial fornicator, lifelong failure, self-absorbed and immature, is the nemesis of all that is admirable, let alone respectable — but he remains indelibly alive, unsettlingly human and often hilarious.
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On 5 June 2006, on the Al Jazeera program Sharia and Life, al-Qaradawi (a regular on the program) reiterated orthodox views on homosexuality. When asked about the punishment for people who "practise liwaat (sodomy) or sihaaq (lesbian activity)", al-Qaradawi replied: "The same punishment as any sexual pervert – the same as the fornicator." (MEMRI translation). The punishment for fornication is lashing.
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The remaining jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts was removed in the 19th century. Fornication was against the law, and punishments were enforced by these ecclesiastical courts. The normal punishment was a public confession through use of the Stool of Repentance, but payment of buttock mail commuted this sentence, allowing the convicted fornicator to avoid public humiliation. The term buttock mail was in use from the 16th until the 19th century.
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Reverend Cole (Tom Noonan) complains to the Swede about daughter Ruth (Kasha Kropinski). He believes she has taken his place in the church and corrupted Joseph (Eddie Spears). The Swede encourages Cole with the biblical story of Jesus casting out the temple's moneychangers, adding, "We must cast them out." Ruth delivers Schmidt's eulogy at church but is interrupted when Cole accuses her of sleeping with Joseph, calling her a fornicator.
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In a grand house at Bordeaux lives Gérard, owner of a pharmaceutical business. A drinker and fornicator, he disgusts his son François, recently returned from the USA. To Gérard's disgust, his second wife Anne is a candidate in the municipal election. Her daughter by her first marriage, Michèle, is excited by the return of François and the two go off for a weekend at Pyla, where they become lovers.
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He is also attacking the Jesuits, who were very active in his time, and the play portrays them as anti-social villains: "The typical Jesuit is 'a notorious Bawd, & famous Fornicator, lascivum pecus, a very goat' (AM 1.40), and the Jesuits play many 'pranks'".See Kathryn Murphy, "Jesuits and Philosophasters: Robert Burton's Response to the Gunpowder Plot", Journal of the Northern Renaissance, 1:1 (Spring 2009), p.6. This paper is freely available online.
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Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, "the greatest fornicator of all time", is a womanizing gadabout, whose motto is never to sleep with one woman twice. He is an oenophile, scorpion and walking stick collector, opera lover, and an expert on Chinese porcelain. He is also wealthy, apparently as a result of morally dubious, maybe even illegal, schemes. In "The Visitor" Oswald stays with a wealthy Syrian and his beautiful wife and daughter; in "Bitch" he funds a scheme to create the perfect aphrodisiac; and in My Uncle Oswald he leads a scheme to sell famous men's sperm.
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The main protagonist of the novel is Don Carlos Cobello, a Spanish mestizo or a Filipino with Spanish ancestry who had “little direct contact” with brown-skinned Filipinos, or "Indios". According to José’s narrative and portrayal, Cobello is the embodiment of a “libidinous fornicator”, the egotistic and selfish aristocrat who himself described sinfulness as a social definition instead of being a moral designation, and further described sin as an “absurd” and “grotesque creations of society”. Cobello is also a believer in the statement that “historical interpretation is reserved for the ‘strong’ ”. Cobello later becomes a paraplegic because of a “freak accident” that occurred in his bathroom.
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He is having an affair with a relative of Father Canon Jean Mignon, another priest in the town; Grandier is, however, unaware that the neurotic, hunchbacked Sister Jeanne des Anges (a victim of severe scoliosis who happens to be abbess of the local Ursuline convent), is sexually obsessed with him. Sister Jeanne asks for Grandier to become the convent's new confessor. Grandier secretly marries another woman, Madeleine De Brou, but news of this reaches Sister Jeanne, driving her to jealous insanity. When Madeleine returns a book by Ursuline foundress Angela Merici that Sister Jeanne had earlier lent her, the abbess viciously attacks her with accusations of being a "fornicator" and "sacrilegious bitch," among other things.
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When she returned to the school, however, Student Life informed her that she would be expelled "because she is a fornicator." PCC released a statement vehemently denying all the accusations of Field's blog, claiming that PCC was being "harassed and victimized" by the accounts. They claimed to have done a thorough investigation of the matter by consulting their official records, and they categorically denied that any student had ever been expelled for being the victim of rape or any other crime. Kelly McBride, a senior faculty ethicist at the Poynter Institute, pointed out that PCC's process should have included inviting students who have felt victimized to voice their concerns, adding that PCC's defensiveness could create the appearance that the school has something to hide.
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Jehovah's Witnesses practice a form of excommunication, using the term "disfellowshipping", in cases where a member is believed to have unrepentantly committed one or more of several documented "serious sins". The practice is based on their interpretation of 1 Corinthians 5:11-13 ("quit mixing in company with anyone called a brother that is a fornicator or greedy person or an idolater or a reviler or a drunkard or an extortioner, not even eating with such a man....remove the wicked man from your midst") and 2 John 10 ("never receive him in your home or say a greeting to him"). They interpret these verses to mean that any baptized believer who engages in "gross sins" is to be expelled from the congregation and shunned. When a member confesses to, or is accused of, a serious sin, a judicial committee of at least three elders is formed.
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